The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-10-26

doned all hope. Surely between my
rooms and the bank some opportunity
for escape would present itself l had
no intention of unlocking the vault. At
the last moment / should have risked a
few shots from the robbers reyolvers.
My escort unlocked the sitting.room
door, and paused with his hand on the
knob. At that instant sound of foot
steps was heard on the stairs. the kew
| was quietly turned in the lock, and felt
| for the first time the cold rim ofa revol-
yer on my temple The steps passed my
! door, and the weapon was lowered. You
all know what followed. Before the
weapon could be raised again the door
fell in with a crash and the robber, who
stood directly in front of it, was dubbed
to the floor and handcuffed by a squad
of policemen, led by the paying-teller
| Dick did not return TO his own cham
bers that night. We spent the time un-
til daylight in my sitting-room- At first
| he absolutely refused to explain his sud-
den appearance with the officers, for Dick
| is a hard-headed sort of fellow, who
scouts everything that cannot be demon
strated by set rules and figures but he
| finally fairly unbosomed himself, telling
| his story before | had even given hint
of my own mysterious experience.
slept soundly until nearly / O'Clock,
he said, with the air of a man who ex-
/ poets to be laughed at, and thon | pass
ed into strange, trance-like dream. In
that dream | saw, as plainly as | ever
saw if in my life. the interior of your
| bathroom and seated at the foot OF the
| tub, where the opening door would have
| concealed him from any one looking in,
| saw the man we had last seen opposite
the window where We dined. | recog-
nized at once the slouching figure and
the level line of eyebrows he then at
tempted to hide beneath the rim of his
slouch hat.
There was no light in the bathroom,
or anywhere about the apartment, but |
had no difficulty in tracing every line of
his face, nor in seeing you sound asleep
in your bed. NY mind at once became
filled with the one idea that you were in
danger In my sleep | called out to you
to lock the bathroom door, and warned
you that | could not get the slouching
| figure we had seen on the edge OF the
walk out of my mind | could not make
you hear In my alarm | even gave the
private signal We use at the bank. | act
ually awoke to find myself sounding it
on the head of nay bed, and repeating
| over and over again the words told you
ofspeaking.
/ laughe at myself for being super
stitious idiot, and went to sleep again,
only to renew the experiences described
to see the slouching figure in the bath
room, and to repeat my cries of warning
and the private signal. awoke again to
find myself standing by my open win
dow i must have raised it in my sleep,
for / closed it on retiring1 giving the pri-
vate signal ON the sash, and repeating the
warning words. How long ! should have
remained there cannot say. My blows
on the sash must have ioosened the catch
for the window fell with crash In
moment | heard the City Hall clock strike
one.
/ was now thoroughly awake, but |
| could not drive from my mind the inn
pressions created by my singular dreams.
Perhaps should have gone to bed again
only for the fact that the figure my dream
had shown me in your apartment WAS
the same | had warned you against on
parting with you for the night. | resoly-
ed to dress myself and seek you in your
rooms.
/ was ashamed to come to your door
openly at that time of night, with no ex-
cuse to offer for my presence save such a
one as any old woman would have laugh
ed at, so | crept up stairs ike a spy and
listened. | saw the flash of the dark
lantern at the threshold. | heard enough
10 satisfy me that something was wrong,
so | went for the police